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Go Unlimited with AT&T’s 5G Deals – Phandroid

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The continued proliferation and adoption of 5G hardware by enterprises and consumers alike has certainly led to a rapid rise in its availability in recent times. Carriers and telecom brands have essentially lowered the barrier of entry for consumers looking for better data connectivity speeds, and as a result users now have better access to 5G data services.

With that said, today we’re taking a look at what AT&T has to offer with their unlimited data plans. One of the biggest network and service providers in the US, the company offers a range of different unlimited 5G plans for customers, each with a varying set of service features. Let’s check them out!

AT&T’s Unlimited Plans

Right off the bat, there are three different tiers available for AT&T users. The Unlimited Premium Plan with four service lines will cost you $50 per line, and comes with perks including unlimited phone calls and texting, high-speed data, 50GB hotspot data, and even 4K UHD streaming. Additionally, you get unlimited texts, calls and data in-between Mexico and Canada, unlimited SMS from the US to more than 200 countries, and no speed caps on data speeds.

There’s also an Unlimited Extra Plan, which goes for a slightly lower $40 price per line (with four service lines as well), and while it likewise comes with unlimited SMS, calls, and data, 5G speeds might be slower once you hit 50GB of usage, with video streaming reduced to SD quality. Hotspot data is also reduced to 15GB per month, which is considerably smaller.

If you’re after something even more affordable, then the AT&T Unlimited Starter Plan comes in priced at around $35 per line for four lines. With this one, you do get similar features as the Extra Plan, although hotspot data is reduced to 3GB, much smaller than the Extra Plan. With that said, all plans get you Active Armor Advanced security, with the exception of the Starter Plan which comes with more basic security.

By comparison, Verizon’s base-tier $35 5G plan only gets you 15GB of data, while their top-tier plan goes for $60, making it slightly more expensive than AT&T’s Unlimited Premium Plan. On the other hand, T-Mobile’s base Essential plan rounds out to around $30, although you only…

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Will AT&T’s call to drop Huawei end phone maker’s US hopes?

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  1. Will AT&T’s call to drop Huawei end phone maker’s US hopes?  The Guardian

  2. Why T-Mobile won’t deal with Huawei  AndroidPIT (press release)
  3. Uncle Sam’s treatment of Huawei is world-class hypocrisy – consumers will pay the price  Brinkwire (press release)

    4. Full coverage

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Android Nougat Hitting Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 On AT&T’s Network – Android Headlines

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Android Nougat Hitting Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 On AT&T's Network
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Apart from a broad range of new features and performance optimizations that ship with all builds of Android 7.0 Nougat, AT&T bundled the upgrade with the May Android Security Update, the company said. Both of the firm's Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 variants are …

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“Pre-loaded video chat apps” will all work on AT&T’s network by year’s end

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Trying (and failing) to video chat over AT&T.
Andrew Cunningham

When Google unveiled its new Hangouts service at Google I/O last week, AT&T users quickly discovered that they couldn’t use its new video chat feature over cellular. This occurred despite the fact that the iOS version of the application works just fine on the carrier’s network.

Officially, AT&T said at the time that it makes a distinction between pre-loaded applications (like FaceTime on iOS or Hangouts on Android) and those that are downloaded manually by the user (Hangouts on iOS or Skype on either platform). Phone makers that work with AT&T can enable video chatting in their built-in apps—Apple, Samsung, and BlackBerry were all given as examples. However, the Verge reports that the company will be removing this restriction by the end of the year. From AT&T’s statement:

For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices, we currently give all OS and device makers the ability for those apps to work over cellular for our customers who are on Mobile Share or Tiered plans. Apple, Samsung, and BlackBerry have chosen to enable this for their pre-loaded video chat apps. And by mid-June, we’ll have enabled those apps over cellular for our unlimited plan customers who have LTE devices from those three manufacturers.

Throughout the second half of this year, we plan to enable pre-loaded video chat apps over cellular for all our customers, regardless of data plan or device; that work is expected to be complete by year end.

Today, all of our customers can use any mobile video chat app that they download from the Internet, such as Skype.

The carrier’s ban on built-in video chatting apps obviously stems from a desire to reduce bandwidth usage rather than any real technical limitation, since Hangouts works in iOS but not in Android. However, if you’re an AT&T customer who wants to get in some Hangout time with some of your loved ones, the policy change will (eventually) straighten everything out.

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